Links tagged with “generations”
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Joe Moran · Gen Z and Me · LRB 16 February 2023
On Gen Z and generational change.
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The X of Generation X
W. David Marx: “…the loudest complaints about ‘cultural stasis’ tend to come from Gen X adults whose cultural interests have long been anchored in obscure and openly-artistic cultural forms.” (via Russell Davies)
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The Balletic Millennial Bedtimes of ‘Normal People’ | Lorrie Moore | The New York Review of Books
From 2020. I liked, about millennials, “They have no authentic counterculture…”. If all culture is easily accessible, can there be any counter? (I don’t know if this is right, but interesting.)
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Douglas Coupland on Generation X at 30 | Books | The Guardian
“The term became a meme back when society only had five or six of them a year.” “I don’t even remember what my pre-internet brain felt like.”
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Identifying Generational Gaps in Music
This is interesting, although it’s odd they never explicitly say it’s US-focused. (via Waxy)
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Gen Z Is Making Fun Of Millennials On TikTok
I’ve enjoyed the relationships between generations since Gen X, so. (via Please Like Me)
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Domestic Cozy: 9
High Peasant (Boomers), Premium Mediocre (Millennials), Domestic Cozy (Gen Z), Favela Chic (Gen X). From a low cost vs private pleasure 2x2.
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‘Boomerspeak’ Is Now Available for Your Parodying Pleasure | WIRED
Fascinating. I use ellipses a lot myself but I don’t think I use them as randomly, or to end messages, as much as some older people seem to. Which comes across as passive aggressive apparently… (via Waxy)
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HM Government Horizon Scanning Programme - Social Attitudes of Young People
“The aim of this report is to assess if and how social attitudes of young people in the UK today differ from previous generations, and how they might evolve in the future.” December 2014
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Every Every Every Generation Has Been the Me Me Me Generation - Elspeth Reeve - The Atlantic Wire
Scroll down for the examples of 100+ years of oldsters moaning about kids being spoiled narcissists. (via @timoarnall)
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The Entrepreneurial Generation - NYTimes.com
This is good - this generation’s “thing” is starting small businesses. “Our culture hero is not the artist or reformer, not the saint or scientist, but the entrepreneur.” Although it falls apart a bit when suggesting hipsters have only been around for 15 years. (via Waxy)
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Peak oil, the next Kondratiev cycle, generational turnings, and ERE Early Retirement Extreme: — The choice nobody ever told you about
Great thinking on long term futures. Kondratiev cycles, peak oil, the downturn, the next world war, generations. Well worth a read.
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Emptyage — Generation X Doesn’t Want to Hear It
I’m not quite sure what point this is trying to make, if any, but I like it all the same. (via Waxy)
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Three different definitions of retirement and the resulting confusion Early Retirement Extreme: — when more time > more money
I’m not sure how accurate or generalisable this is, but I like the suggested generational distinctions between what “retirement” means.
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Generation PC, 1964-73 - Brainiac - The Boston Globe
A guide to the names of different generations. Generation X etc. (via Kottke)
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Hilobrow | Middlebrow is not the solution
(Re)Naming the generations from 1844 onwards. I’m fascinated by these kinds of divisions and identifications. (via Kottke)
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Schneier on Security: The Future of Ephemeral Conversation
“The younger generation chats digitally, and the older generation treats those chats as written correspondence. … until we have a Presidential election where both candidates have a complete history on social networking sites from before they were teenagers — we aren’t fully an information age society.” (via Oblinks)